PNN – After long opposing his controversial plan to forcibly evacuate Gaza residents from the region, US President Donald Trump announced: No one wants to force Gaza residents to leave this region.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday local time in a joint press conference with the Irish Prime Minister: Nobody will expel any Palestinian from Gaza.
Trump’s statements are clearly a retreat from his previous proposal, which called for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the US taking over the area, which was met with widespread opposition from Arab countries and other countries around the world, but was welcomed by Israel.
In a controversial plan, Trump called for the withdrawal of about two million Palestinians from Gaza in order to rebuild the strip and create what he calls a “Middle East Riviera.”
Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin also emphasized the need to consolidate the ceasefire and said at the meeting: We call for the release of the hostages and the realization of peace in Gaza.
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This is while international mediation is underway to begin negotiations for the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
The US president first revealed the controversial Gaza plan, which angered Palestinians, at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his first foreign guest. He insisted that the Palestinians leave Gaza and that Egypt and Jordan accept them.
Trump’s unprecedented, historic, and unexpected statements on Gaza on February 4, 2025, that the United States should occupy, control, develop, and maintain war-torn Gaza and have “long-term ownership” in it, have sparked global reactions.
Trump’s proposal to take ownership of Gaza during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far caused a wave of confusion and condemnation, and human rights advocates and politicians have firmly rejected and condemned the US President’s statements to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and rebuild and own it.
Critics argue that by presenting his plan, Trump not only supports ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but also violates the UN Human Rights Charter by proposing to take it over by force.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect on the morning of Sunday, January 19, 2025, and consists of three phases, each lasting 42 days. During this phase, negotiations were to be held on the implementation of the agreement in the second and then the third phases. While negotiations for the second phase of the agreement were supposed to begin on the sixteenth day of the first phase of the agreement (February 3), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented it.